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Digested Milk

A drink made by mixing hot and cold milk with soda and pancreatic liquid, then resting.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Digested Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine 1 pint of boiling hot milk with 1 pint of cold milk.

  2. Add 30 grains of carbonate of soda and 1½ teaspoons of Liquid Pancreaticus.

  3. Mix well and let it stand for 3 hours at an even temperature.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the liquid base in which the other ingredients work.
Carbonate of soda
Makes the mixture less acidic, which helps the enzyme work.
Liquid pancreaticus
Pancreatic enzymes that break down proteins and fats in the milk.

The step that matters

Letting it stand at an even temperature. Enzyme activity depends on time and temperature. Holding the mixture at a steady temperature for the full 3 hours lets the enzymes act evenly, while big swings can slow or stop that action.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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